From eggs to ducklings

[StormsnSaugeye]

Hey congratulations! I just had 4 of my 14 call ducklings hatch today. The little guys are notoriously slow and a few of them were malpositioned so far. Something I noticed was that there were residual veins with blood in them, but the umbilical vein going from the membrane to the chick would be perfectly clear.
Strange stuff.
Here's Kaga Earl Grey. The first to hatch and was given a joke name while I was watching a star Trek episode. He spent a few hours in a tea cup because I play it slow and cautious.

 

[Knighstar679]

Hey congratulations! I just had 4 of my 14 call ducklings hatch today. The little guys are notoriously slow and a few of them were malpositioned so far. Something I noticed was that there were residual veins with blood in them, but the umbilical vein going from the membrane to the chick would be perfectly clear.
Strange stuff.
Here's Kaga Earl Grey. The first to hatch and was given a joke name while I was watching a star Trek episode. He spent a few hours in a tea cup because I play it slow and cautious. View attachment 1473811

He is handsome! And nothing wrong with being named after Star Trek stuff

I had just gone to the computer to note the hatch date of tx1 and came back to grab my phone to find her out being snuggled on by a very distressed sounding tx4 even though she was out of egg. I looked and saw more than a few drops of blood. 4 was promptly put next to 1 and 5 was fished out and put in jail after nutria-drenched. The cord area wasn’t dry like I had seen with others. Hopefully I caught it soon enough and she will pull through.

 

[Knighstar679]

We have ducklings. Three nice little Welsh Harlequin babies. The two malpositioned ducklings are still a little sleepy to the natural hatching one but I gave them each a speck of nutria-drench this morning when I put a tiny container of food and water in.

Here is all three in the brooder together


This is orange duckling. I think silver phase male.



This is yellow duckling the first malpositioned one that hatched last night. I think silver female?


This is the one that kept me up last night and was the last to hatch, green duckling. Silver phase female?



Anyone familiar with WH to know if they might be right?

Terrified to leave food and water for them while I am at work but it is a shallow container that will tip over if too much weight is put on it. I don’t want them to drown. Also don’t want to leave them with nothing for 9 hours today.

 

[WVduckchick]

You can use a shallow bowl with some pebbles or rocks in it, with water spaces between, so they can still drink but not tip it over.

@BantyChooks can maybe help with the WH clarifications.

 

[Knighstar679]

You can use a shallow bowl with some pebbles or rocks in it, with water spaces between, so they can still drink but not tip it over.

@BantyChooks can maybe help with the WH clarifications.

I will see if I can find my pebbles again!

 

[BantyChooks]

You sound right with the genders, as long as it's a good line for that. Very cute!

 

[Knighstar679]

Update on the Maryland eggs. As of this morning none of them had pipped but several had started to rock a bit.

Wasn’t surprised no one pipped as they were only in lockdown a little over 12 hours. I am sure they are going to take their time to get here.

 

[StormsnSaugeye]

Addendum:
12 out of 14 have hatched for me so far...

 

[Knighstar679]

I decided to bring out the trio to my living room, (no carpet) and offer the ducklings some space to move about and see more than their dark brooder box. They loved it got really active. So I gave them their mush and pebble water and they played in both while attacking the dogs that got to close. Dogs were very good but will never be alone unsupervised with the ducklings.

Ducklings enjoying their mush food I made tonight.


The two dogs wondering what all the peeping and such was. I liked that I became a jungle gym for the one.

 

[WVduckchick]